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Originally Posted by Pierre
The issue is though, no matter what he did before being restrained, the way he was restrained was unacceptable.
Now, the he acted can be brought forward as mitigation into the way the cops handled it but they are guilty of accidental death, and the fact that they ignored his pleas that he couldn't breath the prosecution may even ask for the accidental part be removed.
Even without the sideshow, if the facts were brought before any jury, I would expect them to be found guilty of whatever the US version of accidental death is.
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But who was guilty and of what? The only person who could even remotely be charged with murder, is Kueng. The reason he needed to be restrained was because of HIS behaviour. How else was he going to be restrained? Even in the fictitious scenario of him not needing to be restrained, how exactly do you restrain somebody, in order the stop them injuring others or themselves? The police officers didn't do it for fun.
As I said, the police are
instructed to ignore bogus pleas, especially ones able to be made 16 times. At no point did he indicate he was going to go quietly.